This activity is one of the things we do at the Roosevelt Reads! Committee. The idea behind this committee is to promote literacy school wide with fun activities. Each year two books are chosen as part of our One Book One Community programme. The idea is that the entire community reads one book (we have one for our little readers and one for our older readers). This books are promoted throughout the year and we celebrate one Family Fun Night (FFN) per semester and try our best to stick to themes that go along the lines of the books chosen.

This year our books were: Oh The Place You'll Go by Dr. Seuss and Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce. Our first FFN, back in October was about Dr. Seuss, so this time FFN was about Millions. Our activities this year were:

Booktionary: Like Pictionary but instead of things or activities we had book titles!

Digital storytelling: Using Book Creator kids could create their own stories. For this we used 6 iPads.

Million Dollar Smile Photobooth: As the title says, this was a photobooth, but before getting your picture take you created your own smiles. The materials for this were: white paper plates, marker,s scissors, a popsicle stick or straw and tape. We cut the paper plates in half and then each kid created their own mouth and then took a picture with it.

Make Your Own Piggy Banks: As the title said, kids made their own piggy banks with the template the teacher provided them with.

'Money Doesn't Grow On Trees' Windsocks: We created windsocks were kids could glue on printed fake money.

Last, but not least we had BOOKCART RACES!

The idea is simple: you get get a book cart filled it up with books and ran to the shelve. This is a HUGE success and I love been in charge of it! Kids love it, they get super excited and I even had a parent ran with the book cart once, it was a glorious moment!

This is a great community event, that brings together parents, students, and staff in a fun filled afternoon. Everyone has fun, eats some healthy snacks and we even have a book raffle running throughout the event.

Note: all images for the posters were taken from freepik.com and then altered in Photoshop.